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Thats not to say all proxies will mean "spam", so use with caution. Some people don't even know they are using a proxy.
Some ISPs in certain countries will even use transparent proxies, but for the uk it's not that common

There's a list of options for which proxies types you can allow through / prevent. I would keep an eye on it

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I can't seem to get this to work. I've selected India as a country to blacklist and have filled in JSON Request with "http://freegeoip.net/json/{$ip}" and Index Name with "country_code" but spambots from India are still registering and spamming no problem. Nothing is showing up in the StopCountrySpam Log. Any ideas?

Not for a while, I'm working full time at the moment.
I've basically made no return on existing plugins and have to keep a roof over my head (lost about 10K taking 1-2 years to develop them),
The anti-spam methods are slipping into the core (so there will be no money for me for future development), and this plugin rarely gets purchased, so as such I'm now working full time.

I have no issues with xenforo incorporating plugins / methods into the core (in fact, it's a good idea in some areas), and I've gained quite a lot of Zend experience (which has helped get my current job), but it's at an economical loss if doing full time.

I'll update plugins, but it could be some time in the future.
Fixing bugs when I can, but that's about it at the moment.

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I purchased and installed earlier in the week and it appears to be working... though it's not catching Pakistan spammers using the IP starting at 39.xx - not sure if using a different location database service would help there...

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Do you have an add-on where a guest from a certain country registers and it automatically goes to the moderation queue.

The problem is i am getting some spam from the same person every month. He is from vietnam. I don't want to block vietnam but instead i want any ip that registers from vietnam to be sent to the moderation queue. So i would recieve an email saying someone from vietnam registered and i have to approve his account.

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Thats not to say all proxies will mean "spam", so use with caution. Some people don't even know they are using a proxy.
Some ISPs in certain countries will even use transparent proxies, but for the uk it's not that common

There's a list of options for which proxies types you can allow through / prevent. I would keep an eye on it

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I love this concept and am considering purchase. One item that would help convince me to purchase is an addon I was considering creating that should be nothing to complete for this interesting addon -- country names for every new account registered based upon their IP. So when I search users to see who has registered during the past week, I would love to see the country name in the list of results as a column instead of having the IP address hidden for each account. This way I could tell at a glance if users are getting through and what countries they seem to be registering from.

I've had a ton of registrations this past week. I know we are an extremely popular site and that our cult is growing... especially in Pakistan.

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OK, purchased and installed on Sunday but cannot get it to work on 1.5. PM sent here to the resource author, no response. PM sent to the admin account which welcomed me on the site I was redirected to for purchase, no response. I know it's only £12 but having picked the paid version over the free version, I would hope for some sign of life @tenants

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Cool... perhaps you can help then please? When it blocks a country, say one that's NOT on the whitelist, should it prevent the registration page from appearing at all? If I only whitelist some remote country to test, it still lets me see the registration page despite my IP being from the UK.

There's nothing in the logs to say it's having problems.

Also, what settings do you use for the JSON queries? I can't get this to work based on any in the author's forum. I'd love to see the settings for a working installation (PM this if you like).

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Done some more tinkering, just to rule out the appearance of the registration form being indicative of this not working. I set a whitelist and ticked Aarland Islands only, so it should exclude me as coming from the UK. I cut and past the JSON details from a post above which is the same as one of the ones in the author's forum (which I had already tried). It showed me the registration form and let me register Nothing at all in the logs.

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Two weeks later... still no response whatsoever from the add-on author, here or on their own forum.

PayPal has ruled in my favour and given me a refund.

I understand when authors no longer want to support their products, it happens, but to still take payment surely is just plain wrong? Then no response to messages here or on their own forum, or any response to a PayPal complaint then escalation to a dispute.